Neil W. Bernstein is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at Ohio University. His recent books include Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (OUP 2013), Silius Italicus: Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (OUP 2017), Seneca: Hercules Furens (Bloomsbury 2017), and Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome's War with Hannibal (with Antony Augoustakis; Routledge
2021).